The production comes from Tim Goldsworthy, and Beautiful Thing sounds fantastic throughout. These are simple songs, but Goldsworthy does enough to keep them from being simplistic. In Roll on Blank Tapes, which may be a reflection on worthless nostalgia (“Home taping is killing music, don’t you know / Skateboarding is not a crime any more”), the song fills with percussive, electronic whooshes, echoes and bangs that seem to reflect the lyric: it sounds oddly like kids skateboarding around the ramps of a deserted multistorey car park. The most fun is Oh Baby, which begins with the glammy hammering piano and synth squiggles of an early Roxy Music single, but has the joyful honesty of a Teenage Fanclub song.
(The Guardian)

Opener Dreaming Another Life has a gorgeous wobble and a nicely Kid A-ish discordant feel. Deep Cut sounds like Behaviour-era Pet Shop Boys although it’s laced with extra-delicate vocals, a reminder that a fragile male voice can often carry a tune nicely (see also Gerry Love). The lines 'What you need is a new key / Something to set your mind free' are a welcome bit of musical therapy.
The whole album orbits around the lovely, hymnal A Hit Song, while following track Oh Baby has a striking, Beatles-y melody. Less spectral and spacey is Suspicious of Me, where Taylor heads down the disco with his big boy boots on.
(The Skinny)